ALMOST THE END OF THE LINE Hard to imagine October is done. Finito. My favorite month. The only thing about it I don’t like is that winter is right behind it. The cold is closing in quickly. I don’t have… Read More ›
Winter
ROMANTIC BLUE IN JULY – Marilyn Armstrong
The blue romance of July is an icy river from last winter On this very hot day in July, thoughts tend to turn more to cold showers than romance … but it will get better. By Monday, the heat will… Read More ›
THE SNOW IS GONE – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Tuesday: SNOW The snow is gone. We didn’t get a lot of it this year. It didn’t show up at all until March and it only lasted a week and a bit, but it rained and stormed almost continuously… Read More ›
MAKING DO AND SOMETIMES, A SURPRISE – Marilyn Armstrong
Our mailbox got beat up. Was it whacked by a teenager and a baseball bat or hit by a plow? Since we didn’t see it happen, it’s a guess. What we know it that it got mashed. Not just ours,… Read More ›
TEMPERATURE AND WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND – Marilyn Armstrong, Photos -Garry Armstrong
RDP Thursday – TEMPERATURE “Oh, the temperature outside is shocking …” and it really is. Really really cold, though it’s supposed to go up into the 40s over the weekend. I hope so. Because nothing is melting. Photo Garry Armstrong
SNOWY WONDERLAND – BY ELLIN CURLEY
This morning, after a big snow, my back and front yards looked like a lacy, white wonderland. So, from north central Connecticut, another piece of the same huge snowstorm!
SPECULATING ON SNOWFALL – Marilyn Armstrong
RDP Monday: SNOW SPECULATION We have a very favorite meteorologist, Harvey Leonard, currently with Channel 5 (ABC), but previously a colleague of Garry’s for more than 30 years. He’s a great meteorologist and can tell you — really — pretty… Read More ›
THE CHANGING SEASONS: FEBRUARY 2019 – Marilyn and Garry Armstrong
The Changing Seasons: February 2019 This has been a very strange winter. Instead of what we usually get — mountains of snow accompanied by very cold weather — we got a tiny bit of snow, a fair amount of sleet, and… Read More ›
FEATHERY PHOTO BOMBING – Marilyn Armstrong
I always know there’s a bird on the other side of the feeder by the way it swings in the air. A lot of the ladderback woodpeckers like to stay where they can’t see me … and I can’t take… Read More ›
AND THEN, IT WAS WARM AGAIN – by Marilyn Armstrong
It was bitterly cold and it snowed. Then, it sleeted. Eventually, it rained, but not so much around here. Mostly here, after the sleet blew through, that was pretty much it. The ice and snow lay on the ground and… Read More ›
AND THEN IT SNOWED AND WE CANCELLED THE DAY … Marilyn Armstrong
I’m not afraid of winter. I’ve lived most of my life in areas with serious winters, the most serious of all here where we live. This year, we’ve had the least snow ever recorded for any winter. It isn’t that… Read More ›
STORM STORIES – BY ELLIN CURLEY
There are many interesting storm stories in my family history, starting with my Mom as a young woman. Sometime in the mid-1940s, before she married my dad, my mom and her friend Ethie were staying at my father’s summer house… Read More ›
